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The Day (Waco, Texas) Vol. 2 No. 167, Friday, May 22, 1885

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Evaporated Peaches,
Evaporated Apples,
Prunes and Currant,
Fresh Country Butter.
Cheap as Anybody.
Moore & Thompson,
Jellies,
Pickles,
Fine Teas,
Chipped Beef,
Lunch Tongue,
Potted Ham,
Moore & Thompson.
Vol. 2 No. 16*7. Waco, Texas, Friday Evening May 22, 88v Price s Cents.
Sra GSootss
SANGER BROS
China Mattings.
WE HAVE IN STOCK
1Li Li
mm
Wa Must Unload During this Month.
A FIRE TRAP.
The Unhappy Victims ot a Sudden
Flash oi Benzine.
ANOTHER HOLOCAUST AND ITS THRULING
AND AFFECTING SCENES.
• • ® •
A Glimpse at Happenings in Texas and
Elsewhere,
WE ARE MAKING OUR PRICES ACCORDINGLY AND ARE SHOWING
FANCY MAT1
at 12 12 cents per Yard, Fancy, Jointless Matting
at 15 cents per Yard Plain and Fancy Matting
at 18 cents a Yard. A. Great Assortment for
20,2212,25 and 30 cents per Yard.
IN PINE MATTINGS WE ARE SHOWING THE RARE AND CHOICE
DAMASK BRAND.
CARPETS
.ARE ADVANCING DAILY, BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO NAME THE EXTRAOKDINARILY
LOW PRICES UNTIL JUNE 1st, WHICH WE HAVE
BEEN MAKING FOR THE LAST FOUR MONTHS.
LOOK.
65c. Extra Supers 65c.
90c. Three Plys 90c.
MOQUETTS, BRUSSELS, TAPESTRIES, VELVETS
Heavy and Lace Curtains, Turcoman Portiers. Matts and Rues, Oil Cloths
and Linoleum at
SANGER BROS.
Uiquora.
FAVORITE OF TWO CONTINENTS.
We are Sole Agents
for the King of Bottied
Beers:
Anheuse Standard,
Erlanger Black
Beer,
AnheuserPale Beer,
Scotch and English
Ales and Porter.
Highest P r emiums
Over all Competition.
Exported
MORE LARGELY
Than Any Other American
Beer. Pronounced
by Experts the
I. A. GOLDSTEIN
"WHOLESALE AdSTID HtETAHj XjXQTTOH?CI3Hj7LIiIETR
Pure Red Wines at 80 cents and at $1.00 per Gallon.
lUrcscripttou Qcuffdisis.
CASTLES & MORRISON’S.
OLD CORNER DRUG STORE IS THE
Leading Prescription Drug Store In the City.
Best Stock Of Patent Medicine.
^ETHE TRIUMPH CIGAR.==^ *
IN GENERAL.
Cincinnati, May 21.—At half past 1
o’clock this afternoon, as Mr. J. D. Dean,
city editor of the Times, was going up the
stairway to his office, he saw dense clouds
of smoke issuing from the windows of the
building Nos. 19 and 21 West Sixteenth
street, and immediately telephoned to the
fire department. The alarm brought the
engines almost instantly Jto the spot, and as
the firemen could reach the building from
front to rear, it was not fifteen minutes until
the fire was so much under control that
the chief engineer was able to reach the top
or fifth floor, and to his horror he found
eleven dead bodies lying with hands to their
faces, and their faces blackened and distorted
in death. •
The chief said in speaking of it: “The
house is not burned out. In fact, the fire
was chiefly in the fifth story. In the smoke
I counted eleven girls lying upon benches,
tables and other things and some on the floor.
Their clothing was not burned, but the skin
on the backs of their hands was scorched.
It was a terrible sight, the worst I ever saw
in my experience. The girls lay where they
had fallen in their wild and helpless despair.”
In addition to these victims eight girls and
women jumped from the fifth story to the
sidewalk, and five are dead.
The fire originated from the explosion of a
gasoline stove on the second floor. The
flames entered the elevator which is next to
the stairway, and all chance of escape was
thus cut off.
It was not long until the fire was under
control, but the mass of telegraphic and telephone
wires prevented the firemen from putting
up ladders for the relief of the inmates.
This city has had its share of shocking disasters,
but never has one happened in which
so pitiful a lpss of life has occurred as that
of today with so little occasion. In less
than fifteen minutes after the fatal fire began,
sixteen or seventeen persons had perished
and yet looking over the scene after the
event, it is plain that every life cou'd have
been easily saved.
There was an avenue of eseape which the
panic stricken girls never thought of.
It was an opening in the roof, which
they easily, could could have reached from
a bench standing beside the wall, and once
on the roof they could have reached
other buildings with perfect ease. As
soon as the fire started John Sullivan, a
young man, cousin of the proprietor, ran
up the stairway to the fifth floor to give
warning to the girls. Instantly he found
that he was too late to get the girls down
the stairway. What he did for the frenzied
girls could only be told by the glimpse that
could be seemof him at the smoking window,
where four of the girls had already
leaped to their death. J. R. Kinsley’s son
and his foreman had gone to the roof of
their building adjoining this on the west
and, knowing the girls were imprisoned on
the floor below, they procured a rope and
lowered it to the window, where Sullivan instantly
grasped it and, fastening one of the
girls to it, helped her gout of the window
and Kinsley and his foreman lowered her
safely. The rope was brought up and Sullivan’
again quickly fastened it to another
girl and sent her down safely. I he rope
came a third time. As the other girls by
this time were all suffoacted or were afraid
to venture, Sullivan fastened the rope to his
own body and was being lowered
when, as he was half way down, the
flames shot out of a window and
he fell head foremost to the sidewalk in the
presence of a horrified crowd of people who
had witnessed his heroism.
The scenes at Hobe’s undertaking rooms,
where the bodies were taken and where the
friends and relatives called to identify them,
were of a most painful character.
In one case a policeman of Covington
identified his sisters, Lizzie and Dollie Handie,
who were twins. I
Mrs. Meyers found the body of her
daughter and had to be led away from the
terrible sight.
Mrs. Lebanon, who lost three daughters,
appeared at . the morgue to identify them.
Iler features were strained with grief, but
with some gleam of hope she passed body
after body until a sharp cry and the words
“My God, here’s Mary!” showed that hope
had fled. In a moment her bewildered eyes
found Katie and then Delia and the poor
woman’s grief was so touching that a spectator
kindly led her to the office, where her
disconsolate moanings could be heard far in
the street..
The . brother of Fannie Jones recognized
his sister by two fingerrings. “It will kill
mother too,” he cried, as the tears ran
down his cheeks, and he, too, was led away
from the ghastly sight.
Boston, Mass., May 21.—Rev. G. A.
Gordon, pastor of the Clarendon Street Baptist
church, H. L. Hastings, a well known
publisher of religious works, and about a
dozen others were arrested yesterday for
holding religious service on the common on
Sunday afternoon last. The police say they
violated the city ordinance in making such use
of the common. The church people declare
that they will hold meetings, as usual, next
Sunday and thereafter, and the police say
that they will arrest any man who opens his
mouth to address a crowd on the common on
Sunday. The evangelists announce that most
of the prominent clergy in the town will be on
hand next Sunday and that vvhen one has
begun to speak and has been arrested another
will take his place.
Collinsville, 111., May 21.—This community
was shocked this morning when it became
known that Rev. J. R. Reasoner, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church of this
city, had committed suicide at 7 a. m. by
shooting himself through the temple with a
thirtytwo caliber pistol.
Madison, Wis., May 21.—In the municipal
court yesterday Mrs. Rebecca Merraot,
of Baraboo., Wis., and Mrs. Magaret Me
Cooley, of Mitchell, Dak., sisters, pleaded
guilty to charges of perjury. They have now
each been sentenced to two years in the state
prison. Each woman when sentenced had
a baby in her arms. Kneeling at the feet
of the judge they piteously pleaded
for ^raercy for their babies’ sake. The
scene was heartrending. Judge Draevley,
with tears in bis eyes said the law was inexorable,
but he would fix the lowest penalty
prescribed. The women then prayed and
sobbed and uttered terrible shrieks as
they were finally removed by the officers.
They said a man named Kirley had
threatened their lives if they did not swear
as they did, and th^t they had for years lived
in mortal terror of him. Both are respectable
women of good local repute. Their babies
accompany them to the penitentiary.
An effort will be made to seenre an executive
pardon in in their case.
THE STATE.
Harrold,Tex., May 21.—The lot sale
was continue# today and exceeded all expectations
for bids. The whole amount of sales
was $53,146, and the number] of lots sold
was 460. This is unprecedented in the history
of lot sales in this state.
The future of Harr old is now assured.
Thirteen houses were commenced today
and there will be as many more begun to*
morrow. Carpenters are in fine spirits and
are full of business. Lumber men are as busy
as they can be filling orders.
Galveston, Tex., May 21—The scene
about the jail today was a lively one.
Fully 1200 persons, mostly colored, were
admitted to the jail to take a last look at
Jasper Rhodes, the muderer, who hangs tomorrow.
Hundreds of visitors had never
seen a doomed man before and were prompted
to visit him merely by morbid curiosity,
Jailer Brown was present at all the interviews
with the prisoner, and nothing was permitted
to be given the prisoner without being closely
inspected. Rhodes bears up remarkably
well. He does not seem to be greatly concerned
about tomorrow. In conversation
with his spiritual adviser he sa’d he had forgiven
evry one; that he had no enemies, and
that he was not afraid to die. He prays
fervently and was baptized today a large
bathtub being improvised into a baptismal
font. The execution will take place in the
jail, and not over forty persons will witness
the hanging.
Mineola, Tex., May 20.—Sheriff Flourney
returned yesterday from New Orleans,
having in charge P. S. Groves, who is indieted
in this county for various crimes, and
lodged him in jail. He is the party who some
two years ago spread the report of a negro
rising along the Texas & Pacific railway from
Marshall to Mineola, and implicated John
Thompson, an alderman of this city, at
that time his partner in a bridge contract,
and a Marshall negro named Silas
Johnson as being the leaders. The evidence
against the negro was so clear and the excitement
at the time so intense that he was
lynched by citizens in his neighborhood.
CITY COUNCIL
AN ELABORATE AND TUIELY WARNING AS TO
LOCAL SANITATION.
Policeman Amonctt’s Petition Kcfused—The Qucstionof
a New Fire Engine—The Street
Commissioner and Calabooso
Hands.
The city council met last night, Mayor
Wilkes and all the aldermen present.
A petition, numerously signed, was read,
praying the council to grant policeman M. F.
Amonett some financial assistance in the
matter of meeting the expenses of his recent
trial, for killing Tom Scott. It set forth that
he stands in pressing need of the sum
of $300. ^
A motion was made to refer the petition to
the finance committee. Alderman Speight
opposed tiais, saying the council could act on
it now as well as two weeks later. Alderman
Stephenson said he was not prepared to
vote on it at this time. Alderman Speight
moved to lay the petition on the table. Carried,
six yeas to four nays.
Alderman Owens, for the sanitary committee,
reported the condition of the cityimproved
since last meeting, but there were
many nuisances to be abated yet. He stated
the health officer was present, and he suggested
he be heard on the subject of sanitation.
Dr. A. H. Snead, health officer, then read
a lengthy report, very practical and interesting
and replete with valuable suggestions.
It was referred to the ordinance committee
with instructions to act in conjunction with
the sanitary committee, to the end that the
health regulations may be revised in accordance
with the suggestions of the health
officer.
Alderman Grider, for the street committee,
made a statement respecting the opening of
South Tenth street to Dutton, what it will
cost, etc. The amount, estimated, is $800.
No action was taken, save to grant further
time.
The street committee submitted a majority
report, adverse to the claim of Mr. S. A.
Hogan, in reference to the sewer^he constructed
on North Fourth street. Alderman
Wood, of the street committee, made what
might be called a minority report, arguing
that Mr. Hogan ought to be paid what he
claimed. The majority report was adopted.
Alderman Alexander, for the fire department,
reported that he had not yet sold the
horses belonging to the fire engine, on the
ground that dispensing with the engine would
require people insuring their property to
come under the threefourths clause. He
asked for instructions.
Alderman Stephenson said he thought the
threefourths clause was a very healthy institution;
he didn’t know but what it would be
better for Waco to come under that clause.
We are certainly not able to buy a new
engine.
Alderman Alexander said he favored a liberal,
progressive policy in reference to a fire
department. It would pay to have a good,
new engine, and the cost would be comparatively
small.
Alderman Wood said he would oppose
buying a new engine. He favored more fire
hydrants, to give a larger degree of fire protection
to taxpayers. The whole matter was
then dropped.
Alderman Tibbs, for the finance committee,
reported the following accounts against the
city, which were allowed and ordered paid:
Day Pub. Co., $18.90; Louis Sternkorb,
$12.00; J. M. Drake, $8.00; L. B. Jacobs,
$31.73; Geo. B. Gurley, $3.00; Alf. Neil,
$75.00; pay roll, street work, $55.00.
The special committee, to report on J. F.
Brinkerhoff’s petition, for back commissions
on fines, reported adversely. Report
adopted.
Quite a discussion arose over a petition
from citizens living on South Eighth street,
respecting the disposition of storm water
which accumulates on that street. The matter
had been referred to a special committee.
Alderman Speight, chairman, made a majority,
and Alderman Grider a minority report.
The minority report was adopted.
The mayor was instructed to pay the coupons
on railroad bonds held by Nelson
Beall; also coupons held by Judge J. C.
Walker, as soon as it is ascertained
Judge Walker has dismissed his suit against
the city.
Alderman Grider said he had taken notice
that the street commissioner has an average
force of five men working under him. The
city pays the street commissioner $75 a
month. Is it economy to pay a man that
price to work live or six men? Mr. Grider
said it would be better to authorize the commissioner
to employ a larger force, or dispense
with the street commissioner. He
merely made the suggestion and the council
can do as it sees fit.
Several aldermen expressed their opinion
on the matter, the general expression being
that the city cannot afford to authorize the
commissioner to employ any force, to amount
to anything; that he must use the calaboose
gang.
It was stated that some of the calaboose
prisoners refused to work. The matter was
diopped here and the council adjourned.
LOCAL SANITATION.
Health Officer Snead’s Views and Suggestions on
the Subject.
The Day regrets that it lacks space to
present, in its entirety, the practical and
timely paper read to the city council last
nighQby Dr. A. II. Snead, health officer of
the city. It is practicable, however, to
summarize Dr. Snead’s views and suggestions,
and we do so in the hope that his advice
will be heeded— not alone by the city
authorities, but the public at large. The
commissioner starts out with the statement:
The city is by no means the Augean stable,
it is often represented. Some sections
of the city are in excellent condition, other
sections in very bad, and still others, principally
the business portion, in a horrible
condition, one that is disgraceful to any civilized
community, in a high degree dangerous
to the public health, and should not be
tolerated a day longer. Taken as a who'e,
its condition is such as justly to cause
grave apprehension for the result during the
approaching summer, and to excite every
one to active, energetic efforts to correct existing
evils.
He then analyzes the causes of this state
of affairs and proceeds to suggest remedial
measures as follows* 1st, Construction
of street drains, payed gutters on the principal
business streets, to carry away storm water
and filthy matter. 2nd, That hereafter,
when a party builds he shall be required to
raise his lot at least to a level with the middie
of the street on which he fronts. 3rd,
That roofs and roof guttering shall be so
constructed as to deliver the rainfall into the
street gutters. 4th, That hogs be either expelled
from the city or allowed to run a}
large as scavengers. 5th, That the privy ordinance
be so amended as to require a water
tight box or drawer to receive excrement.
(In this connection the commissioner warmly
commends the water closet devised and patented
by Mr. P. Berdon, of this city, several
of which are in use. He thinks the city
would do well to purchase the right to use
this closet and sell it to the people at actual
cost.) 6th, He snggests the organization of a
corps of scavengers, to be licensed and regulated,
as to charges, by the city, who shall
make the rounds of the city daily and remove
all objectionable matter. 7th, The purchase
or acquisition of some suitable place
beyond the limits of the city, where such
matter may be removed and then destroyed.
8th, That householders be required to deposite
all offal, slops, etc., in barrels, which
shall be removed, emptied, and cleansed at
stated intervals by the scavenger corps above
mentioned. 9th, That a policeman be assigned
to each ward, to look up and report
all violations of the health ordinances. The
article concludes:
Your health board finds there is an immense
amount of work to be done. The
great majority of our citizens entirely ignore
all sanitary laws—mostly through ignorance
and indifference to a danger they do not realize
as near at hand. It does no good to
warn or reason with people on this subject.
The only way to reach them is this: their
pockets. A prompt, decisive and impartial
enfoi cement of the penalties for violations or
failures to obey the law, will speedily stir
the whole community, will educate them
wonderfully and set them' to work. In my
opinion, it is only by such vigorous action,
at once, that we can hope to put our city in
anything likea condition to successfully avert
the great danger threatening us in case of
an invasion of cholera or other infectious
disease.
All in all the suggestions made by Dr.
Snead merit the earnest and immediate consideration
of the authorities and the community.
The ordinance committee has recognized
this fact by calling a meeting for
4 o’clock this afternoon. The sanitary committee
and health officer will be present at
the meeting and no doubt there will be
prompt and decisive action in the direction
indicated by Dr. Snead.
Grand Picnic!
“J’fingst Scnntag,” Sunday, May 24. For
further information apply to
5 22 2t Fr. Kerkow.
Bargains,
Bargains in hats—Milan, Manilas, satins
and mixed straws.
Bargains it; flowers—French and American.
Bargains in corsets.
Bargains in gloves.
Bargains in neckwear.
Bargains in underwear.
Bargains in stamped goods.
Bargains in fancy work material; chenille
and Arizene silk floss, petals and a great
many other things. I mean what I say.
Come and see. Dresses cut and made to
order. Mrs. B. J. Doss.

Evaporated Peaches,
Evaporated Apples,
Prunes and Currant,
Fresh Country Butter.
Cheap as Anybody.
Moore & Thompson,
Jellies,
Pickles,
Fine Teas,
Chipped Beef,
Lunch Tongue,
Potted Ham,
Moore & Thompson.
Vol. 2 No. 16*7. Waco, Texas, Friday Evening May 22, 88v Price s Cents.
Sra GSootss
SANGER BROS
China Mattings.
WE HAVE IN STOCK
1Li Li
mm
Wa Must Unload During this Month.
A FIRE TRAP.
The Unhappy Victims ot a Sudden
Flash oi Benzine.
ANOTHER HOLOCAUST AND ITS THRULING
AND AFFECTING SCENES.
• • ® •
A Glimpse at Happenings in Texas and
Elsewhere,
WE ARE MAKING OUR PRICES ACCORDINGLY AND ARE SHOWING
FANCY MAT1
at 12 12 cents per Yard, Fancy, Jointless Matting
at 15 cents per Yard Plain and Fancy Matting
at 18 cents a Yard. A. Great Assortment for
20,2212,25 and 30 cents per Yard.
IN PINE MATTINGS WE ARE SHOWING THE RARE AND CHOICE
DAMASK BRAND.
CARPETS
.ARE ADVANCING DAILY, BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO NAME THE EXTRAOKDINARILY
LOW PRICES UNTIL JUNE 1st, WHICH WE HAVE
BEEN MAKING FOR THE LAST FOUR MONTHS.
LOOK.
65c. Extra Supers 65c.
90c. Three Plys 90c.
MOQUETTS, BRUSSELS, TAPESTRIES, VELVETS
Heavy and Lace Curtains, Turcoman Portiers. Matts and Rues, Oil Cloths
and Linoleum at
SANGER BROS.
Uiquora.
FAVORITE OF TWO CONTINENTS.
We are Sole Agents
for the King of Bottied
Beers:
Anheuse Standard,
Erlanger Black
Beer,
AnheuserPale Beer,
Scotch and English
Ales and Porter.
Highest P r emiums
Over all Competition.
Exported
MORE LARGELY
Than Any Other American
Beer. Pronounced
by Experts the
I. A. GOLDSTEIN
"WHOLESALE AdSTID HtETAHj XjXQTTOH?CI3Hj7LIiIETR
Pure Red Wines at 80 cents and at $1.00 per Gallon.
lUrcscripttou Qcuffdisis.
CASTLES & MORRISON’S.
OLD CORNER DRUG STORE IS THE
Leading Prescription Drug Store In the City.
Best Stock Of Patent Medicine.
^ETHE TRIUMPH CIGAR.==^ *
IN GENERAL.
Cincinnati, May 21.—At half past 1
o’clock this afternoon, as Mr. J. D. Dean,
city editor of the Times, was going up the
stairway to his office, he saw dense clouds
of smoke issuing from the windows of the
building Nos. 19 and 21 West Sixteenth
street, and immediately telephoned to the
fire department. The alarm brought the
engines almost instantly Jto the spot, and as
the firemen could reach the building from
front to rear, it was not fifteen minutes until
the fire was so much under control that
the chief engineer was able to reach the top
or fifth floor, and to his horror he found
eleven dead bodies lying with hands to their
faces, and their faces blackened and distorted
in death. •
The chief said in speaking of it: “The
house is not burned out. In fact, the fire
was chiefly in the fifth story. In the smoke
I counted eleven girls lying upon benches,
tables and other things and some on the floor.
Their clothing was not burned, but the skin
on the backs of their hands was scorched.
It was a terrible sight, the worst I ever saw
in my experience. The girls lay where they
had fallen in their wild and helpless despair.”
In addition to these victims eight girls and
women jumped from the fifth story to the
sidewalk, and five are dead.
The fire originated from the explosion of a
gasoline stove on the second floor. The
flames entered the elevator which is next to
the stairway, and all chance of escape was
thus cut off.
It was not long until the fire was under
control, but the mass of telegraphic and telephone
wires prevented the firemen from putting
up ladders for the relief of the inmates.
This city has had its share of shocking disasters,
but never has one happened in which
so pitiful a lpss of life has occurred as that
of today with so little occasion. In less
than fifteen minutes after the fatal fire began,
sixteen or seventeen persons had perished
and yet looking over the scene after the
event, it is plain that every life cou'd have
been easily saved.
There was an avenue of eseape which the
panic stricken girls never thought of.
It was an opening in the roof, which
they easily, could could have reached from
a bench standing beside the wall, and once
on the roof they could have reached
other buildings with perfect ease. As
soon as the fire started John Sullivan, a
young man, cousin of the proprietor, ran
up the stairway to the fifth floor to give
warning to the girls. Instantly he found
that he was too late to get the girls down
the stairway. What he did for the frenzied
girls could only be told by the glimpse that
could be seemof him at the smoking window,
where four of the girls had already
leaped to their death. J. R. Kinsley’s son
and his foreman had gone to the roof of
their building adjoining this on the west
and, knowing the girls were imprisoned on
the floor below, they procured a rope and
lowered it to the window, where Sullivan instantly
grasped it and, fastening one of the
girls to it, helped her gout of the window
and Kinsley and his foreman lowered her
safely. The rope was brought up and Sullivan’
again quickly fastened it to another
girl and sent her down safely. I he rope
came a third time. As the other girls by
this time were all suffoacted or were afraid
to venture, Sullivan fastened the rope to his
own body and was being lowered
when, as he was half way down, the
flames shot out of a window and
he fell head foremost to the sidewalk in the
presence of a horrified crowd of people who
had witnessed his heroism.
The scenes at Hobe’s undertaking rooms,
where the bodies were taken and where the
friends and relatives called to identify them,
were of a most painful character.
In one case a policeman of Covington
identified his sisters, Lizzie and Dollie Handie,
who were twins. I
Mrs. Meyers found the body of her
daughter and had to be led away from the
terrible sight.
Mrs. Lebanon, who lost three daughters,
appeared at . the morgue to identify them.
Iler features were strained with grief, but
with some gleam of hope she passed body
after body until a sharp cry and the words
“My God, here’s Mary!” showed that hope
had fled. In a moment her bewildered eyes
found Katie and then Delia and the poor
woman’s grief was so touching that a spectator
kindly led her to the office, where her
disconsolate moanings could be heard far in
the street..
The . brother of Fannie Jones recognized
his sister by two fingerrings. “It will kill
mother too,” he cried, as the tears ran
down his cheeks, and he, too, was led away
from the ghastly sight.
Boston, Mass., May 21.—Rev. G. A.
Gordon, pastor of the Clarendon Street Baptist
church, H. L. Hastings, a well known
publisher of religious works, and about a
dozen others were arrested yesterday for
holding religious service on the common on
Sunday afternoon last. The police say they
violated the city ordinance in making such use
of the common. The church people declare
that they will hold meetings, as usual, next
Sunday and thereafter, and the police say
that they will arrest any man who opens his
mouth to address a crowd on the common on
Sunday. The evangelists announce that most
of the prominent clergy in the town will be on
hand next Sunday and that vvhen one has
begun to speak and has been arrested another
will take his place.
Collinsville, 111., May 21.—This community
was shocked this morning when it became
known that Rev. J. R. Reasoner, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church of this
city, had committed suicide at 7 a. m. by
shooting himself through the temple with a
thirtytwo caliber pistol.
Madison, Wis., May 21.—In the municipal
court yesterday Mrs. Rebecca Merraot,
of Baraboo., Wis., and Mrs. Magaret Me
Cooley, of Mitchell, Dak., sisters, pleaded
guilty to charges of perjury. They have now
each been sentenced to two years in the state
prison. Each woman when sentenced had
a baby in her arms. Kneeling at the feet
of the judge they piteously pleaded
for ^raercy for their babies’ sake. The
scene was heartrending. Judge Draevley,
with tears in bis eyes said the law was inexorable,
but he would fix the lowest penalty
prescribed. The women then prayed and
sobbed and uttered terrible shrieks as
they were finally removed by the officers.
They said a man named Kirley had
threatened their lives if they did not swear
as they did, and th^t they had for years lived
in mortal terror of him. Both are respectable
women of good local repute. Their babies
accompany them to the penitentiary.
An effort will be made to seenre an executive
pardon in in their case.
THE STATE.
Harrold,Tex., May 21.—The lot sale
was continue# today and exceeded all expectations
for bids. The whole amount of sales
was $53,146, and the number] of lots sold
was 460. This is unprecedented in the history
of lot sales in this state.
The future of Harr old is now assured.
Thirteen houses were commenced today
and there will be as many more begun to*
morrow. Carpenters are in fine spirits and
are full of business. Lumber men are as busy
as they can be filling orders.
Galveston, Tex., May 21—The scene
about the jail today was a lively one.
Fully 1200 persons, mostly colored, were
admitted to the jail to take a last look at
Jasper Rhodes, the muderer, who hangs tomorrow.
Hundreds of visitors had never
seen a doomed man before and were prompted
to visit him merely by morbid curiosity,
Jailer Brown was present at all the interviews
with the prisoner, and nothing was permitted
to be given the prisoner without being closely
inspected. Rhodes bears up remarkably
well. He does not seem to be greatly concerned
about tomorrow. In conversation
with his spiritual adviser he sa’d he had forgiven
evry one; that he had no enemies, and
that he was not afraid to die. He prays
fervently and was baptized today a large
bathtub being improvised into a baptismal
font. The execution will take place in the
jail, and not over forty persons will witness
the hanging.
Mineola, Tex., May 20.—Sheriff Flourney
returned yesterday from New Orleans,
having in charge P. S. Groves, who is indieted
in this county for various crimes, and
lodged him in jail. He is the party who some
two years ago spread the report of a negro
rising along the Texas & Pacific railway from
Marshall to Mineola, and implicated John
Thompson, an alderman of this city, at
that time his partner in a bridge contract,
and a Marshall negro named Silas
Johnson as being the leaders. The evidence
against the negro was so clear and the excitement
at the time so intense that he was
lynched by citizens in his neighborhood.
CITY COUNCIL
AN ELABORATE AND TUIELY WARNING AS TO
LOCAL SANITATION.
Policeman Amonctt’s Petition Kcfused—The Qucstionof
a New Fire Engine—The Street
Commissioner and Calabooso
Hands.
The city council met last night, Mayor
Wilkes and all the aldermen present.
A petition, numerously signed, was read,
praying the council to grant policeman M. F.
Amonett some financial assistance in the
matter of meeting the expenses of his recent
trial, for killing Tom Scott. It set forth that
he stands in pressing need of the sum
of $300. ^
A motion was made to refer the petition to
the finance committee. Alderman Speight
opposed tiais, saying the council could act on
it now as well as two weeks later. Alderman
Stephenson said he was not prepared to
vote on it at this time. Alderman Speight
moved to lay the petition on the table. Carried,
six yeas to four nays.
Alderman Owens, for the sanitary committee,
reported the condition of the cityimproved
since last meeting, but there were
many nuisances to be abated yet. He stated
the health officer was present, and he suggested
he be heard on the subject of sanitation.
Dr. A. H. Snead, health officer, then read
a lengthy report, very practical and interesting
and replete with valuable suggestions.
It was referred to the ordinance committee
with instructions to act in conjunction with
the sanitary committee, to the end that the
health regulations may be revised in accordance
with the suggestions of the health
officer.
Alderman Grider, for the street committee,
made a statement respecting the opening of
South Tenth street to Dutton, what it will
cost, etc. The amount, estimated, is $800.
No action was taken, save to grant further
time.
The street committee submitted a majority
report, adverse to the claim of Mr. S. A.
Hogan, in reference to the sewer^he constructed
on North Fourth street. Alderman
Wood, of the street committee, made what
might be called a minority report, arguing
that Mr. Hogan ought to be paid what he
claimed. The majority report was adopted.
Alderman Alexander, for the fire department,
reported that he had not yet sold the
horses belonging to the fire engine, on the
ground that dispensing with the engine would
require people insuring their property to
come under the threefourths clause. He
asked for instructions.
Alderman Stephenson said he thought the
threefourths clause was a very healthy institution;
he didn’t know but what it would be
better for Waco to come under that clause.
We are certainly not able to buy a new
engine.
Alderman Alexander said he favored a liberal,
progressive policy in reference to a fire
department. It would pay to have a good,
new engine, and the cost would be comparatively
small.
Alderman Wood said he would oppose
buying a new engine. He favored more fire
hydrants, to give a larger degree of fire protection
to taxpayers. The whole matter was
then dropped.
Alderman Tibbs, for the finance committee,
reported the following accounts against the
city, which were allowed and ordered paid:
Day Pub. Co., $18.90; Louis Sternkorb,
$12.00; J. M. Drake, $8.00; L. B. Jacobs,
$31.73; Geo. B. Gurley, $3.00; Alf. Neil,
$75.00; pay roll, street work, $55.00.
The special committee, to report on J. F.
Brinkerhoff’s petition, for back commissions
on fines, reported adversely. Report
adopted.
Quite a discussion arose over a petition
from citizens living on South Eighth street,
respecting the disposition of storm water
which accumulates on that street. The matter
had been referred to a special committee.
Alderman Speight, chairman, made a majority,
and Alderman Grider a minority report.
The minority report was adopted.
The mayor was instructed to pay the coupons
on railroad bonds held by Nelson
Beall; also coupons held by Judge J. C.
Walker, as soon as it is ascertained
Judge Walker has dismissed his suit against
the city.
Alderman Grider said he had taken notice
that the street commissioner has an average
force of five men working under him. The
city pays the street commissioner $75 a
month. Is it economy to pay a man that
price to work live or six men? Mr. Grider
said it would be better to authorize the commissioner
to employ a larger force, or dispense
with the street commissioner. He
merely made the suggestion and the council
can do as it sees fit.
Several aldermen expressed their opinion
on the matter, the general expression being
that the city cannot afford to authorize the
commissioner to employ any force, to amount
to anything; that he must use the calaboose
gang.
It was stated that some of the calaboose
prisoners refused to work. The matter was
diopped here and the council adjourned.
LOCAL SANITATION.
Health Officer Snead’s Views and Suggestions on
the Subject.
The Day regrets that it lacks space to
present, in its entirety, the practical and
timely paper read to the city council last
nighQby Dr. A. II. Snead, health officer of
the city. It is practicable, however, to
summarize Dr. Snead’s views and suggestions,
and we do so in the hope that his advice
will be heeded— not alone by the city
authorities, but the public at large. The
commissioner starts out with the statement:
The city is by no means the Augean stable,
it is often represented. Some sections
of the city are in excellent condition, other
sections in very bad, and still others, principally
the business portion, in a horrible
condition, one that is disgraceful to any civilized
community, in a high degree dangerous
to the public health, and should not be
tolerated a day longer. Taken as a who'e,
its condition is such as justly to cause
grave apprehension for the result during the
approaching summer, and to excite every
one to active, energetic efforts to correct existing
evils.
He then analyzes the causes of this state
of affairs and proceeds to suggest remedial
measures as follows* 1st, Construction
of street drains, payed gutters on the principal
business streets, to carry away storm water
and filthy matter. 2nd, That hereafter,
when a party builds he shall be required to
raise his lot at least to a level with the middie
of the street on which he fronts. 3rd,
That roofs and roof guttering shall be so
constructed as to deliver the rainfall into the
street gutters. 4th, That hogs be either expelled
from the city or allowed to run a}
large as scavengers. 5th, That the privy ordinance
be so amended as to require a water
tight box or drawer to receive excrement.
(In this connection the commissioner warmly
commends the water closet devised and patented
by Mr. P. Berdon, of this city, several
of which are in use. He thinks the city
would do well to purchase the right to use
this closet and sell it to the people at actual
cost.) 6th, He snggests the organization of a
corps of scavengers, to be licensed and regulated,
as to charges, by the city, who shall
make the rounds of the city daily and remove
all objectionable matter. 7th, The purchase
or acquisition of some suitable place
beyond the limits of the city, where such
matter may be removed and then destroyed.
8th, That householders be required to deposite
all offal, slops, etc., in barrels, which
shall be removed, emptied, and cleansed at
stated intervals by the scavenger corps above
mentioned. 9th, That a policeman be assigned
to each ward, to look up and report
all violations of the health ordinances. The
article concludes:
Your health board finds there is an immense
amount of work to be done. The
great majority of our citizens entirely ignore
all sanitary laws—mostly through ignorance
and indifference to a danger they do not realize
as near at hand. It does no good to
warn or reason with people on this subject.
The only way to reach them is this: their
pockets. A prompt, decisive and impartial
enfoi cement of the penalties for violations or
failures to obey the law, will speedily stir
the whole community, will educate them
wonderfully and set them' to work. In my
opinion, it is only by such vigorous action,
at once, that we can hope to put our city in
anything likea condition to successfully avert
the great danger threatening us in case of
an invasion of cholera or other infectious
disease.
All in all the suggestions made by Dr.
Snead merit the earnest and immediate consideration
of the authorities and the community.
The ordinance committee has recognized
this fact by calling a meeting for
4 o’clock this afternoon. The sanitary committee
and health officer will be present at
the meeting and no doubt there will be
prompt and decisive action in the direction
indicated by Dr. Snead.
Grand Picnic!
“J’fingst Scnntag,” Sunday, May 24. For
further information apply to
5 22 2t Fr. Kerkow.
Bargains,
Bargains in hats—Milan, Manilas, satins
and mixed straws.
Bargains it; flowers—French and American.
Bargains in corsets.
Bargains in gloves.
Bargains in neckwear.
Bargains in underwear.
Bargains in stamped goods.
Bargains in fancy work material; chenille
and Arizene silk floss, petals and a great
many other things. I mean what I say.
Come and see. Dresses cut and made to
order. Mrs. B. J. Doss.